A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The largest drain hole in the world.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.