While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

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

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

An art gallery home to a plethora of art from local artists who can often be seen hard at work.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

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