One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.