You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

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.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Three hangars filled with meticulously restored aircraft and armored vehicles.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.