Places marissaweekend Wants to Go

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

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

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

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

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

After a local English teacher visited Stratford-upon-Avon, she was inspired to create a garden and home in the Bard's honor.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.