A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

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

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.