On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

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

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.