Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

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

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

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

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

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

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