An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.