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

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

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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.

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

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.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

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