These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

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

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

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 great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

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

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

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

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

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