At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.