This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A sculpture dedicated to the trade that gave the town its name.

A wooden sculpture sits rather out of place in this Mexican beach town.

A wild Hollywood resort thwarted by mosquitoes.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.