The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.