Portland, Oregon
Portland's Shanghai Tunnels
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
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Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Portland, Oregon
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Milwaukie, Oregon
Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Antonito, Colorado
The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.
Estes Park, Colorado
An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.
Virginia City, Montana
An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.
Cave Junction, Oregon
Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.
Bend, Oregon
The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.
Ashland, Oregon
Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.
Calistoga, California
California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Berkeley, California
A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.
Menlo Park, California
Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Yosemite National Park, California
The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Santa Barbara, California
The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.
El Segundo, California
The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.