This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.