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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."