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

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.