This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

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

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

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