The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'