A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

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

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.