Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The magic's in the hole!

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.