The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

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.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.