Florence, Oregon, is famous for an exploding whale, but the town has much more to offer. It sits near the Oregon Dunes ...

In one of the most hilariously weird examples of Oregon history, on November 12, 1970, officials decided to use a half-ton of dynamite to dispose of a dead whale (which apparently really stank) that ...

In an attempt to solve a “whale-sized” problem, Oregon officials blew up a beached whale with dynamite. What followed was chaos, carnage, and airborne blubber ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious ...