Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

A stone face watches over the river.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.