Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

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

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

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

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

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

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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