This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.