This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

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

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

Hundreds of pelicans call this island no larger than a car their home during the summer months.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

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

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.