A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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

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

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

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.