Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.