Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

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

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.