A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

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

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

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

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

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

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.