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

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.

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

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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