You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

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

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

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

The magic's in the hole!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

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

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

A replica that won't float away.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.