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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

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

The magic's in the hole!

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.