A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

Marine fossils from the Devonian period are exposed at this park.