One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Outsider Art Community.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

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

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.