This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

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

The magic's in the hole!

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

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.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.