One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

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

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.