This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

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

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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

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

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

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.