A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.