An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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.

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.

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

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