L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Two side-by-side historic and closed cemeteries.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.

Where a rare geological phenomenon created a section of rock that resembles a checkerboard.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.