Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

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

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

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