This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

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

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.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The magic's in the hole!

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The great American road trip, but smaller.