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Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest
A gold rush in the late 1800s brought Robert Bagby, a prospector and hunter, to the Mount Hood area. He apparently never found much gold there, but he did discover and promptly name these hot... »
Watery Wonders | Edited by jamesb and Nathan_Risinger
A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep
The eruptions from the Four Craters Lava Field -- four pyroclastic cone volcanoes formed during the Pleistocene or early Holocene --created a sinking of the older heavier rock, forming a shallow... »
Natural Wonders | Edited by canuck, Dylan and others
A Roman style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside
Overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River on the 600 foot high Coxcomb Hill in Astoria, Oregon is the The Astoria Column. Built in 1926, the concrete and steel structure is part of the city park... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by canuck and Dylan
Home to the only municipal elevator in the United States
Oregon City includes dramatic changes in elevation and the city's central business district is sandwiched between the Willamette River and a basalt cliff. At the top of the 90-foot (27 m) cliff... »
Architectural Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel...
The Timberline Lodge is perhaps the most instantly recognizable lodge-hotel in the world.
About 60 miles east of Portland, and perched at nearly 6000 feet on the south side of Mount Hood,... »
Odd Accommodations | Edited by canuck and Dylan
A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed
Fort Rock is a volcanic landmark called a tuff ring, located on an Ice age lake bed in north Lake County, Oregon, United States
The ring is about 4,460 feet (1,360 m) in diameter and stands... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
These machines have been collecting dust for decades
Tucked away in a not-so-dusty corner of Stark's Vacuum Cleaner Sales & Service in downtown Portland is a collection that would make any prop master, house wife, or history buff slobber with... »
Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by jamesb, wythe and others
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose
The Spruce Goose, or H-4 Hercules—also called the flying lumberyard—only took flight once. It lifted some 70 feet off the water and flew for around a mile. That was to be the wooden behemoth's... »
| Edited by chuck, Dylan and others
Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline
When it comes to naming towns, it was often a case of looking around for the nearest notable landmark to name it after. For Twin Rocks, Oregon the choice was remarkably easy.
Offshore from the... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
The deepest lake in the United States and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in myth
Crater lake has been known by a number of names. It was first known (to non-Native Americans anyway) as "Deep Blue Lake," as named in 1853 by its 'discoverer' John Wesley Hillman, an American... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
