This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A majestic hotel that also stands as a historic relic.

This canyon is named for a unique geologic formation where the river vanishes underground near the mouth of the canyon and reappears farther down.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

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

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."