This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

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

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.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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