Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

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

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

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

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

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.