Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

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

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

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.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.