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

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

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

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

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

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

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