This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.