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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The magic's in the hole!

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.