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

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

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

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

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

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

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The magic's in the hole!

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.