This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.