A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

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

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

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

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

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.