The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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.