The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

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

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.