A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

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

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and actor from “The Exorcist,” Jason Miller, is immortalized with a statue that contains his ashes.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

It is the oldest remaining stairway William Penn created to give Philadelphia citizens access to the port area.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.