An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

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

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

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

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

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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