This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.