This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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!!

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

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

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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