The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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

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

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

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

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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