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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.