The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

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

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

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.