This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

Mine your own precious stones.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

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

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

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

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

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

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.