One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

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