The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.