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

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

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

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

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.