A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

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

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

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

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

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.