A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The magic's in the hole!

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.