Places justplainjen Wants to Go

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

Make it an offering.

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

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

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

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

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

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.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.