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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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