Curious crater remnants in the middle of the Australian outback.

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The magic's in the hole!

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.