World's largest Christmas store.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.