One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A large instrument played by the wind.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.