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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

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

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

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

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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

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