Pepeekeo, Hawaii
'Akaka Falls
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
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Pepeekeo, Hawaii
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
Hilo, Hawaii
Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Hilo, Hawaii
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
Nothing, Arizona
Nothing to see here.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Williams, Arizona
A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Jerome, Arizona
Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.
Phoenix, Arizona
A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.
Phoenix, Arizona
Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.
Auburn, California
A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.
Bakersfield, California
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
Twentynine Palms, California
The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.
Hayfield, California
Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.
Chiriaco Summit, California
A museum dedicated to the life and career of the gifted but controversial general.
Chiriaco Summit, California
Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Calipatria, California
Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.
Calipatria, California
Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.
Calipatria, California
Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Borrego Springs, California
A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.