Places leeann365 Wants to Go

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

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

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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