Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The magic's in the hole!

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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.

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

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.