Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Dozens of whimsical bear statues "hibernate" here during the winter months.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

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