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Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

These natural hot springs form four-tiered soaking pools with temperatures ranging from 85 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

The mounds on this coastal archaeological site reveal the history of the land’s first inhabitants.

Every winter, this tiny islet on Florida’s Gulf Coast is swarmed by some of the largest birds on the continent.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

Brick walkways weave through more than 500 palms and cycads, representing 150 species from around the world.