This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

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

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

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

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.