A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

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

The magic's in the hole!

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

In the palace with a thousand doors, not all of them are guaranteed to lead you somewhere new.

A 30-foot-tall sculpture pays homage to what was once the Steering Wheel Capital of the World.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.