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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

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

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

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.