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

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.