A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

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

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.