A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

The crumbling remnants of this 19th-century quarantine hospital hint at the touristy island's darker past.

This small fort played a huge role defending Puerto Rico’s capital city.

A natural swimming pool in the middle of the Carite Forest.

An artist’s underground sanctuary, 40 years in the making.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

This 20th-century mansion plays a key role in one of Puerto Rico's greatest novels.

An unnatural lake in a naturally beautiful setting.

Puerto Rico's once thriving oil company is now an abandoned wonderland of rusty steel.

This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

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