This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

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

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

Take in some Air Force history—and ogle some beautiful planes—at this little-known park near Myrtle Beach’s seashore.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.