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.

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

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

The magic's in the hole!

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.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.