The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

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

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."