You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

The magic's in the hole!

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.