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

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

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

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

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.