A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Make it an offering.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.