Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.