Pescadero, California
Pigeon Point Lighthouse
A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.
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Pescadero, California
A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.
Pescadero, California
Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.
Pescadero, California
Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.
Monterey, California
Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.
Pacific Grove, California
Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."
Monterey, California
Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.
Monterey, California
Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.
Monterey, California
The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”
Monterey, California
One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.
Lakeside, Nebraska
The final resting place of the West’s original scribe.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Chadron, Nebraska
This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States.
Ardmore, South Dakota
Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.
Harrison, Nebraska
Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.
Chadron, Nebraska
America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.
Harrison, Nebraska
Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.
Harrison, Nebraska
Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.
Maysville, Colorado
This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.
Bellvue, Colorado
The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.
Grand Lake, Colorado
The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.
Little America, Wyoming
Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.
Winona, Kansas
Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.
San Diego, California
A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."