The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

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

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

An underwater city for the dead.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.