This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

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.

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

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

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

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

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

Sasqu(w)atch out!

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

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

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

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.