According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

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

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

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

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

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

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

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

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.