A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

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

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.

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

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

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

Make it an offering.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

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

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

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This elephant kraal is the only one remaining in Thailand, dating back to the 16th century when these massive mammals were integral players in war and trade.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.