A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.