Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

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

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

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

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

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

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

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

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.