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‘A Sound Garden’

Seattle, Washington

‘A Sound Garden’

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Medical Ed. Photo by Annetta Black

Seattle, Washington

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Fremont Troll

Seattle, Washington

Fremont Troll

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Bart Simpson immortalized on concrete.

Portland, Oregon

Bart Simpson Etching

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

Sign on door, 3rd location.
Permanently Closed

Portland, Oregon

24 Hour Church of Elvis

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!!

Bunkers looking North (I-84 view)

Hermiston, Oregon

Umatilla Chemical Depot

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

The lithia water fountain.

Ashland, Oregon

Lithia Water Fountain

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Nobuo Fujita's Sword

Brookings, Oregon

Nobuo Fujita's Sword

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Oregon City Municipal Elevator 1940's (photo from Oregon City website)

Oregon City, Oregon

Oregon City Municipal Elevator

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

Antler chandelier plus interior of restaurant

Elsie, Oregon

Camp 18 Restaurant

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Outside Hippo Hardware in Portland.

Portland, Oregon

Hippo Hardware

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

Mt. Hood trying to hide behind the trees at the tulip farm.

Woodburn, Oregon

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Neahkahnie Mountain

Nehalem, Oregon

Neahkahnie Mountain

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Astoria Column

Astoria, Oregon

The Astoria Column

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Pittock Mansion

Portland, Oregon

Pittock Mansion

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

A view of Crescent Beach from Ecola Point.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Crescent Beach

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Twin Rocks

Rockaway Beach, Oregon

Twin Rocks

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Crown Point Vista House

Corbett, Oregon

Vista House at Crown Point

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The salmon swimming through the building.

Portland, Oregon

Transcendence

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Paul Bunyan Statue

Portland, Oregon

Paul Bunyan Statue

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Mount Hood

Government Camp, Oregon

Mount Hood

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

An aerial view of the rose garden.

Portland, Oregon

International Rose Test Garden

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

Mill Ends Park

Portland, Oregon

Mill Ends Park

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

Timberline Lodge

Government Camp, Oregon

Timberline Lodge

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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