Portland, Oregon
Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.
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Portland, Oregon
Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Oregon City, 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.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Clackamas County, Oregon
Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.
Portland, Oregon
A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.
Portland, Oregon
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Portland, Oregon
On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.
Portland, Oregon
Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.
Woodburn, Oregon
This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Crater Lake, Oregon
A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.
Salem, Massachusetts
Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Boston, Massachusetts
The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.