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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

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

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.