Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.