Places megantheforce Wants to Go

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

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.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

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

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

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

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

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

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

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

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.