Lee Vining, California
Mono Lake
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
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Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
Los Angeles, California
Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Lancaster, California
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
Los Angeles, California
A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.
Mammoth Lakes, California
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Reno, Nevada
An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.
Incline Village, Nevada
A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.
Primm, Nevada
This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Gerlach, Nevada
Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.
Reno, Nevada
Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."
Boulder City, Nevada
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.