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Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.