L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.