A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Make it an offering.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

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

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.