A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A large instrument played by the wind.