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The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

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

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.