A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

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

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.