The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.