An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

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 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.