Places kimrad Wants to Go

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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.

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

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 magic's in the hole!

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

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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