Places ajbear234 Wants to Go

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

The only building in the western U.S. designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

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

The third tallest plunge fall in Oregon, worth visiting year-round.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.