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

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

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

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.