Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

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

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

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

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

The magic's in the hole!