Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.