The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Dedicated to an airmail pilot who never let go of his important payload.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

A remarkably well-preserved brick chimney from a smelter dating to the 1860s is all that remains of this former mill.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.