Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

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

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.