This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

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

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.