Places DarkFireJacob Wants to Go

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.