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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.