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A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

A haven for wildlife amid the farmlands and development of the Willamette River Valley.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

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

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.