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Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

A ghost town in a remote corner of Oregon hosts a touching tribute to Sacagawea’s son.

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

Make it an offering.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.