"Only the devil could play golf here."

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The magic's in the hole!

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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