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

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

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.

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.

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