This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

At the site of the most dangerous crossings on the Oregon Trail, a museum explores the complex history of westward migration in America.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

An art gallery home to a plethora of art from local artists who can often be seen hard at work.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An installation tells of the horrific 1964 tsunami that devastated Crescent City, California.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

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

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.