This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.