At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

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 sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

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

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.