Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

A massive museum preserving the United States culture and the home of Abraham Lincoln's sleigh.

In the heart of Little Sweden USA, a small gallery and museum pays tribute to a Swedish-born artist who fell in love with the American landscape.

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

Built in 1869, this one-room rural schoolhouse welcomes visitors to travel back to 1904 school day.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

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

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

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

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.