This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

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

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

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.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

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.

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

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

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

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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