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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

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

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

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

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

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

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.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.