Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.