One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

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

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

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

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.