A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

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

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

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

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

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

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

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

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