With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

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

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

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

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

A ghost town in a remote corner of Oregon hosts a touching tribute to Sacagawea’s son.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

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

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.