These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

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

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

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

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.