Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

Stay in an old lookout cabin atop Oregon's spectacular Winter Ridge.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.

This spectacular fault escarpment, a popular hang-glider launch point, extends some 30 miles long and towers about 2,500 feet over the valley floors to the west.

Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.

Depending on how it is measured, this lighthouse can claim to be the tallest in Europe and the tallest conventional lighthouse in the world.

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Admire a Lilliputian replica of the fast food outlet.

One of the last "timber railroads" in the United States was finally abandoned in 1957.

Overshadowed by the theme park opposite it, this small museum explores a major moment in American history.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

An undeciphered text is inscribed on a mysterious stone slab.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

The oldest city park in Walla Walla is home to hundreds of birds, from wood ducks to white peacocks.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

This sharp turn was once the most dangerous part of the Singapore Grand Prix circuit.

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.