Eugene, Oregon
Pre's Rock
A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.
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Eugene, Oregon
A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.
Savannah, Georgia
This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
Savannah, Georgia
A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Seaside, Oregon
Where Nor'easters go to die.
Oregon City, Oregon
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.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Lane County, Oregon
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
Neskowin, Oregon
The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Peachland, British Columbia
The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.
Castroville, California
It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."
Woodburn, Oregon
This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.
Silverton, Oregon
The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
Bend, Oregon
The world's last remaining store of its kind.
Redmond, Oregon
Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.