A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

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

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.