Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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.