This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Orcas on display and in the water.

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

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

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

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

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

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The magic's in the hole!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”