San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.