This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

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

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.