At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

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

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

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

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

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

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

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.