The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

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

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.