This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

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