Baker City, Oregon
The Great Salt Lick
A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.
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Baker City, Oregon
A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.
Vancouver, Washington
A library of only unpublished manuscripts.
Portland, Oregon
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.
Troutdale, Oregon
This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
North Bonneville, Washington
Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.
Eugene, Oregon
Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.
Terrebonne, Oregon
The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.
Terrebonne, Oregon
Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.
Florence, Oregon
The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Vancouver, British Columbia
The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.
La Pine, Oregon
Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Hermiston, Oregon
A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.
Pendleton, Oregon
A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.