Places zdficken Wants to Go

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

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

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

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

Sasqu(w)atch out!

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

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.

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

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Where Nor'easters go to die.