This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The world's longest known cave system.

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

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.