Boulder, Montana
Elkhorn Ghost Town
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.
Places I've been
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Boulder, Montana
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.
Portland, Oregon
A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Portland, Oregon
Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.
Woodburn, Oregon
This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.
Portland, Oregon
This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.
Portland, Oregon
Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Portland, Oregon
This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.
Portland, Oregon
A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.
Portland, Oregon
The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Astoria, Oregon
This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.
Portland, Oregon
The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.
Portland, Oregon
Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.
Portland, Oregon
A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.
Elsie, Oregon
A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Portland, Oregon
Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."
Portland, Oregon
A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.