The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

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

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.