This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The magic's in the hole!

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.