Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

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