Hilo, Hawaii
Waiānuenue (Rainbow Falls)
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
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Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Hilo, Hawaii
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
Hana, Hawaii
A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.
Kula, Hawaii
A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.
Kailua, Hawaii
Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.
Naalehu, Hawaii
A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.
Granger, Wyoming
Mark Twain once stopped at this rest station during his journey to Nevada.
Sundance, Wyoming
An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.
Cody, Wyoming
At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Bar Nunn, Wyoming
A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.
Aladdin, Wyoming
The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.
Moran, Wyoming
Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Afton, Wyoming
A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Tonopah, Nevada
This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.
Tonopah, Nevada
An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.
Tonopah, Nevada
This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.
Portland, Oregon
Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.
Clark County, Nevada
The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.