Rapid City, South Dakota
Hotel Alex Johnson
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Sundance, Wyoming
An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.
Oregon City, Oregon
The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.
Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Florence, Oregon
The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Yachats, Oregon
There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.
Woodburn, Oregon
This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.
Neskowin, Oregon
The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
North Bonneville, Washington
Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.