A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

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

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.