A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.