A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

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 Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.