This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

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

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

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

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

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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

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

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.