"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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