This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A land of debatable treasure.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.