A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

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