The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.