This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

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

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

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

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

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

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.