A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.