The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

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