Lane County, Oregon
Dee Wright Observatory
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
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Lane County, Oregon
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
Fort Rock, Oregon
A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Bend, Oregon
The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Astoria, Oregon
The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.
Sisters, Oregon
This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.
Cave Junction, Oregon
Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Vancouver, Washington
A library of only unpublished manuscripts.
Tacoma, Washington
This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.
Coulee City, Washington
A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.
Seattle, Washington
A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.
Pullman, Washington
A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.
Winthrop, Washington
Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.
Prosser, Washington
The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.
North Bend, Washington
A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.
Friday Harbor, Washington
This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Orlando, Florida
A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Titusville, Florida
A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.