Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

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