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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.

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

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

These wave-cut overhangs on ancient Lake Chewaucan contain some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in North America.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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

This lava tube cave was once a Cold War fallout shelter.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

The only remaining vespasienne in Paris is a (stinky) relic of Resistance.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

The rust covering this old mine's abandoned buildings matches the red pigment it once produced.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.