Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur river.

Naturally carbonated water fills the mineral baths at this 19th-century California resort.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

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

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

At the edge of the high desert, California's second-largest natural lake is home to a unique subspecies of trout adapted to its alkaline waters.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.

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

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.