The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.