One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

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.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

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

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.