Burial site more than 300 years old.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

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

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

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

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.