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

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

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

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

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

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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 lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

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

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

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

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

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

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.