One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

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.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

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

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

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

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.