A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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.

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

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

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

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.