A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

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

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