The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Where the oil industry began.

A tiny one-room church built after one man's prayer for healing was answered.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

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

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.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.