A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

The magic's in the hole!

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.