World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.