A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

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

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

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!!

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.