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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The magic's in the hole!

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.