The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

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Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

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

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.