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

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

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 fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

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

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