The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

The magic's in the hole!

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

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

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

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

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.