Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

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.

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

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 Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

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

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

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

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

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

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

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