This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

In one of the hottest parts of the Mojave Desert, shallow bedrock forces the typically dry Mojave River to the surface in this canyon, providing a vital oasis for humans and wildlife.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

Wander through desolate oil fields littered with rigs.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.