This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

Nothing to see here.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.