Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.