Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

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

Make it an offering.

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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

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