Montreal, Québec
St. Patrick's Basilica
Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.
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Montreal, Québec
Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Port Jervis, New York
A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.
Oak Ridge, New Jersey
This stone bridge is all that remains of a submerged New Jersey town.
Walden, New York
Original factory of John G. Borden who started what we know today known as Borden Dairy.
Lake George, New York
Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.
Saranac Lake, New York
Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.
Roxbury, New York
The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.
West Shokan, New York
Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.
Quinault, Washington
Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.
Government Camp, Oregon
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.
North Bonneville, Washington
Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.
Oregon City, Oregon
Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.
McMinnville, Oregon
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
Portland, Oregon
At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.
McMinnville, Oregon
The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.
Otter Rock, Oregon
This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Florence, Oregon
The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Florence, Oregon
Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.
Bend, Oregon
The world's last remaining store of its kind.