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

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.