This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

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

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The last of its kind in the country.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.