One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

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

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

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.