This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.