San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.