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

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

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

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.