Places bristlecone Wants to Go

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

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

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.