Seattle, Washington
Elephant Car Wash Sign
Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.
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Seattle, Washington
Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.
Antelope, Oregon
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
Tacoma, Washington
A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.
Sisters, Oregon
This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.
Long Beach, Washington
This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Dufur, Oregon
The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.
Government Camp, Oregon
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.
Clackamas County, Oregon
Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Stevenson, Washington
An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Portland, Oregon
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.
Oregon City, Oregon
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.
Oregon City, Oregon
Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.
Portland, Oregon
A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.
Portland, Oregon
This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.