Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.