A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.

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

A family agreed to sell their property to Disney on the condition that this tree, planted as a wedding gift, would not be removed.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.