The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

The magic's in the hole!

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.