The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.