This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The magic's in the hole!

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

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