Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

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

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

The world's longest known cave system.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.