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An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

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

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

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

The largest drain hole in the world.