This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

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

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

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.