One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

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

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.