A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

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

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

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A land of debatable treasure.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.