An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

One of Canada's tiniest museums tackles the world's largest turtle.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

Cross towering trestles and tunnels on a historic canyon rail trail.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

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

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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