One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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.