This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.