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

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

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

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

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

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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

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

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.