ZDA - Zahod

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.