Places KR Peart Wants to Go

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

This lava tube cave was once a Cold War fallout shelter.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

This 80.33 troy ounces of solid gold is believed to be the largest nugget from Oregon still in its original form.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.