Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

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

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

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

Tracing a path of more than four miles around a frozen lake, this is the longest skate trail in the United States.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This cabin once belonged to one of California's original settlers.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.