Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Visit a remnant California's Gold Rush, which locals claim is haunted by spirits from the past.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.