An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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!!

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.

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.