A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.