This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.