A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Antiques by the Bay.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

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

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

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

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

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

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?