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

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.