You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.