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Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

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

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.