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

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

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

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

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

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

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

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

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

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

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

The magic's in the hole!

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.

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