An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

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

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

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

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

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

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

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

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

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.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.