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

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

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

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.