Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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.

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.