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

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

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