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

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

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

The magic's in the hole!

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.