This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This stretch of Canadian road was named after a nickname that stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.