This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.