The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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 palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.