Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

One of the world's smallest city parks is only 12 by 20 feet.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.