Lancaster, California
Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
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Lancaster, California
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Johannesburg, California
The liveliest ghost town in the state.
Boron, California
Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.
Inyo County, California
Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Bishop, California
A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Fallon, Nevada
Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.
Ruth, Nevada
Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.
White Pine County, Nevada
These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Eureka, Nevada
The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.
Austin, Nevada
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
Austin, Nevada
This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.
Seattle, Washington
Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.
Seattle, Washington
Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Seattle, Washington
A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.