10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

A terrace reminiscent of Rome's Spanish Steps is tucked away in a little park in Washington, D.C.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

Since 1985, this Victorian home has operated as a museum filled top to bottom with American-made glassware.

This public Skyspace created by artist James Turrell for his alma mater puts on a show every day at sunrise and sunset.

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.