An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

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.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.