Seattle, Washington
Seattle Underground
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
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Seattle, Washington
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Government Camp, Oregon
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.
Lane County, Oregon
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
Camp Sherman, Oregon
Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.
Crater Lake, Oregon
A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.
Astoria, Oregon
The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.