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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.