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

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

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

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

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The highest point in Delaware is located under a trailer so this marker across the street will have to do.