The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

A memorial to the Indian victims of the devastating 1923 earthquake, built in glorious Mughal style.

The Port of Yokohama’s customs headquarters building resembles a Moorish kasbah, complete with a minaret.

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

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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

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

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