As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

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.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

A haven for wildlife amid the farmlands and development of the Willamette River Valley.

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

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

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

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

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

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.