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.

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

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

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

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

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

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.