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The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

At this Austin dive bar, it's been Christmas every day for more than 50 years.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Now a secluded county park, this site was once a "health tourism" destination for wealthy Oregonians.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

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

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.