Now a pedestrian bridge, this was once part of a narrow-gauge railroad that ran along the east coast of Kauai.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

The remains of a royal fish pond are now a brackish-water wildlife sanctuary

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

The largest ancient temple in all of Polynesia

Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.