This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

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

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.