Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

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

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

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

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

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

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.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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