A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

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.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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