Places eharjes Wants to Go

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

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

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

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

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

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

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

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

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

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

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.