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

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

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

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

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

Make it an offering.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

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