Pacific Coast Highway (California)

Stretching roughly 655 miles from Dana Point to Leggett, the Pacific Coast Highway delivers some of the most dramatic coastal driving in America. Big Sur's Bixby Creek Bridge, a 714-foot concrete arch completed in 1932, frames ocean vistas that have made it one of the most photographed bridges in the country. McWay Falls plunges about 80 feet directly onto the beach at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, and the Piedras Blancas rookery hosts thousands of elephant seals that haul out along the beach year-round.