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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

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.

The magic's in the hole!

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

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!