Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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

The magic's in the hole!

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.