Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

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

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

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

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

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