New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.