McMinnville, Oregon
Evergreen Aviation Museum
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
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McMinnville, Oregon
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
Tillamook, Oregon
The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Nehalem, Oregon
Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Long Beach, Washington
Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.
Ashford, Washington
Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.
Raymond, Washington
The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.
South Bend, Washington
A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Olympia, Washington
The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.
Olympia, Washington
Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.
Chehalis, Washington
A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.
Olympia, Washington
Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.