A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

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

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

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

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