Places heatherrowephr Wants to Go

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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

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

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The first commercial phone line west of St. Louis was installed thanks to a group of Cherokee businessmen.

A memorial to victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.

The largest cattle market on earth holds live auctions open to the public every week.