The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

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

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

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

Make it an offering.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.