This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.