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

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.