According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

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.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

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

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

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

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