Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

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

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.