First Joe Pagac sculpture; sculpture reflects native Tucson wildlife in an urban setting.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

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

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.