Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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!!

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

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

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.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

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

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

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

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.