Taos, New Mexico
Taos Pueblo
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
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Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Selçuk, Turkey
The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
San Diego, California
San Diego's most historic and haunted home.
San Francisco, California
Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Salem, Massachusetts
The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.
Salem, Massachusetts
Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.
Salem, Massachusetts
The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.