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

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

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

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.