Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Oldest building in California still in use.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.