Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The magic's in the hole!

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.

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

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.