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The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

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

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

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

Definitely not a clown bar.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

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

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

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

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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