Originally posted on Pinhole Obscura: Multnomah Falls is the most famous of all of the Waterfalls along the Columbia Gorge. For good reason! It’s easy to get too. But it is also magnificent in its grandeur. It flows year round from the top of Larch Mountain (which is also a must-see destination if you are…

Originally posted on Pinhole Obscura: The California Missions represent Spain’s expansion in California. They were built specifically for military and evangelizing purposes – to convert Native Americans to Catholicism. Because of this I am always left with a bitter taste in my mouth when I visit these kinds of places. The places are beautiful today…

Originally posted on Pinhole Obscura: Portland is a beautiful city. One of the things that makes Portland beautiful is that it is home to a lot of parks. Fact of the day: Portland Oregon is home to one of the largest parks within a city boundary in the United States. Portland is also home to…

Originally posted on Pinhole Obscura: Girl In a Wetsuit is a statue in Vancouver, B.C.’s Stanley Park taken after the famous Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark. Because the original is still under copyright until 2029, it can’t be reproduced. Vancouver decided to avoid legal action by modernizing it, making The Little Mermaid a diver…

Originally posted on Pinhole Obscura: I was determined to visit as many Atlas Obscura places as I could on my vacation to Vancouver B.C. I managed three. One of the three was the Steam Clock in Gastown. Funded by the neighborhood merchants, it was built 1n 1977 as a monument to the city’s first downtown…