Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Make it an offering.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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