This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.