A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.