Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
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Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.
Los Angeles, California
This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.
Los Angeles, California
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.
Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Tehachapi, California
Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Clarkdale, Arizona
The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Mayer, Arizona
An urban laboratory.
Santa Rosalía, Mexico
This metal church may or may not have been designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel.
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.
Kula, Hawaii
A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.