This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

This fireplace-turned-monument pays tribute to the assassinated U.S. president.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.