This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.