This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

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

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

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

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

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

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

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.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.