A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

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

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

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

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

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

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

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.