Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Definitely not a clown bar.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

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!!

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

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A sun-filled museum featuring an ever-rotating collection of classic and exotic cars.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.