One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

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

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A haven for wildlife amid the farmlands and development of the Willamette River Valley.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

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