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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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.

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

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

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Orcas on display and in the water.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

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

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.