Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

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

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

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