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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

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

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

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

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

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.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.