Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

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

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.