Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

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

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

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

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.