Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

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

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.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.