A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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

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

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.