This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Always a new use for this old building.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

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

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

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.