While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

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

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

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

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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.

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

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.