The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

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.

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

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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.

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

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.