No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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.

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

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

What is the Thing?

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.