The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

More than a century old, this cast iron bridge on the Balmoral Estate leads to nowhere.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

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