Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."