A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

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

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

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.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

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

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

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

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

Now a secluded county park, this site was once a "health tourism" destination for wealthy Oregonians.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.