Portland, Oregon
Hippo Hardware
No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.
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Portland, Oregon
No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.
Elsie, Oregon
A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.
Nehalem, Oregon
Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Portland, Oregon
Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.
Portland, Oregon
This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.
Cave Junction, Oregon
A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.
Portland, Oregon
Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Portland, Oregon
Is this the most Portland place ever?
Gold Hill, Oregon
A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.
Portland, Oregon
Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.
Portland, Oregon
Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."
Government Camp, Oregon
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.
Portland, Oregon
This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Portland, Oregon
The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Oregon City, Oregon
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.
Cave Junction, Oregon
Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.