Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

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.