A free park where visitors can learn about and collect 440 million-year-old fossils.

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

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

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The magic's in the hole!

A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

A heartfelt tribute to all of the victims of one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

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