Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.