An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

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

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.