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The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

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

The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.

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

Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

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

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

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

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.