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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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 charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

Because there's no place like home.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.