The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

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

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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