Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

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

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

The magic's in the hole!

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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.