Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.