This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.