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

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

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This bridge was constructed from the remains of the first Ferris wheel.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

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

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

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

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.

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

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

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

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