Sasqu(w)atch out!

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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

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

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

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.