On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

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

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

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

A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.

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

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A popular East Bay hiking trail houses the ruins of a sanitarium that was destroyed in a blaze 50 years ago.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.