The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

This is one really big nut.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.