An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.