The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

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 memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

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

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

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

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

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

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.