This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A World War II battle site made famous by one man's heroic actions.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.