The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

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

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

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."