A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.