A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.