Santa Barbara County, California
Torrey Pines of Santa Rosa Island
Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.
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Santa Barbara County, California
Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.
Maricopa, California
Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.
McKittrick, California
Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.
Santa Margarita, California
The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.
Santa Margarita, California
The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.
Paicines, California
After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.
Jolon, California
This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.
Morro Bay, California
A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.
Solvang, California
In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.
Lompoc, California
With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.
Los Alamos, California
This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.
Cisco, Texas
Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.
Kilgore, Texas
A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Tyler, Texas
The largest public collection of roses in the United States.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Italy, Texas
A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.
Weatherford, Texas
This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.
Weatherford, Texas
The longest floating boardwalk in the United States.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.