The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

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

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

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

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

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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