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The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.