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.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.