Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.