Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

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

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

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.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

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

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

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

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

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

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.