At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

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

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

The largest non-native tree in Washington