Orcas on display and in the water.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.