This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

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

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

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.