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

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

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

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.