The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

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

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

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

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

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