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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.