Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

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

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.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.