A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

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.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.