In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.