An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

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!!

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

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

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

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

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

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

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

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