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

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.

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

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

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

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.