This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.