The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.