Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

The smallest country in the world.

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

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

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

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."