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Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

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

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

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.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.