Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A replica that won't float away.

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.