Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

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

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

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

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.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

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