Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

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

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

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.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

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

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

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

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

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

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

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

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

Site of a tragedy on the Oregon Trail.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

The oldest city park in Walla Walla is home to hundreds of birds, from wood ducks to white peacocks.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.