A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

These boots are made for selfies.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.