For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

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

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

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.