A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

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.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.