Oregon

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Image of Neahkahnie Mountain located in Oregon, US
Oregon, US

Neahkahnie Mountain

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity"

North of Manzanita in Oswald West State Park, the Neahkahnie Mountain sits tucked on the Oregon Coast overlooking U.S. Route 101. Part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range, the mountain is known to... »

Natural Wonders, Cultures and Civilizations | Edited by canuck, Dylan and others

Image of Bagby Hot Springs located in Oregon, US | Group and private baths
Oregon, US

Bagby Hot Springs

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

Image of Reed College Research Reactor located in Oregon, US | Reed Reactor
Oregon, US

Reed College Research Reactor

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates

Manned by a staff of 40 undergraduate students, the Reed College Research Reactor has been in use as a research and teaching facility since 1968. Reed is the only liberal arts college in the world... »

Strange Science, Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and 4 others

Image of Reames Arborsmith Studios located in Oregon, US | Reames at the top of a birch gazebo.
Oregon, US

Reames Arborsmith Studios

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions

Self-titled arborsculptor Richard Reames grows and shapes tree trunks using the ancient arts of grafting, framing, bending and pruning. Reames believes that his living arborsculptures could one... »

Extraordinary Flora, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Josh, Dylan and 2 others

Image of Hole in the ground located in Oregon, US
Oregon, US

Hole in the ground

Massive crater in central Oregon

The exact origin of the mile-wide crater in the Fort Rock Basin of Lake County, central Oregon is a mystery. Thought to be of volcanic origin, rather than the result of an ancient meteor impact,... »

Geological Oddities | Edited by banff and Annetta

Image of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse located in Oregon, US | View of Tilly from Indian Beach, Oregon.
Oregon, US

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and Grandma go to die.

Sea conditions necessitating the construction of the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse were notoriously brutal – so brutal, in fact, that no local workers could be found to participate in the project, as... »

Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by littlebrumble

Image of The Duplicative Forest located in Oregon, US | Deep in the forest
Oregon, US

The Duplicative Forest

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Driving west on I-84, after you have just passed the thousands of bunkers at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, you start to wonder if some of those chemicals have leaked into the air causing you to... »

Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna, Intriguing Environs | Edited by jamesb and A Facebook user