A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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

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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A large instrument played by the wind.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Half of a house.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."