A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

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

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

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.

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

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.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.