One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.