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Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

The scenic ruins of one of the first Catholic churches built in Brazil.

This Moorish fortress has guarded Málaga from the slopes of Gibralfaro hill for nearly a thousand years.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.