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.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

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

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.