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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.