A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A large instrument played by the wind.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.