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.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.