The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

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

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

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.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The magic's in the hole!

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.