Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

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

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

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.