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

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

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

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