This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.