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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.