The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

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

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.

Webcam that broadcast the hatching of Bald Eagles to millions of viewers.

An island said to shake with the current.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

The largest drain hole in the world.