This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.