San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.