This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.