Places RockEngineer49 Wants to Go

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

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

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.