Portland, Oregon
The Grotto
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
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Portland, Oregon
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Portland, Oregon
Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.
Portland, Oregon
The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!
Portland, Oregon
A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Portland, Oregon
These machines have been collecting dust for decades.
Portland, Oregon
Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Portland, Oregon
No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.
Cougar, Washington
This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.
Cougar, Washington
The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.
Bern, Switzerland
The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.
Bern, Switzerland
This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Bridgwater, England
The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.
Oregon City, Oregon
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.
Oregon City, Oregon
Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Nehalem, Oregon
Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.
McMinnville, Oregon
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.