The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

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

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.