The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Rusting dinosaurs frolic at the entrance to this roadside "snake sanctuary."