18. Yosemite Firefalls

Now here is a sight that we are so bummed that we missed. Imagine all of the beauty of Yosemite National Park and its mountains and valleys. Now imagine a roaring fire waterfall cascading from one of Yosemite’s peaks. Yes, that was a real thing that used to happen.

The Yosemite Firefall was a popular event in the summer during which owners of a nearby hotel would pour hot embers from the top of Glacier Point, creating what looked like a spectacular fire waterfall for afar. The event was so amazing that it attracted a ton of tourists. Apparently, it attracted too many tourists for the park to handle, so they poured cold water on the firefall in 1968.