The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

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.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.