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

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.