This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.