Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

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.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.