A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

The Columbia Gorge Hotel sits as a beacon in the Columbia River Gorge and is also said to be haunted.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

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

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

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.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

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