A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

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

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.