Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.