Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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 beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.