Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.