Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The magic's in the hole!

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

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

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

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.