After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

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

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

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

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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.

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

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.