Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

The magic's in the hole!

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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.

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.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.