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

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

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

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The magic's in the hole!

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.