Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

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

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

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

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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