This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

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

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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.

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

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.