Places kerriolschner Wants to Go

Is this the most Portland place ever?

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.