Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

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

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

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

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

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

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

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

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