Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.