Places Eyeofswazey Wants to Go

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

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

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.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.