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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

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

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

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

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

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

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.