One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

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

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.