This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The world's largest collection of historic U.S. military naval vessels.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.