The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

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

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.