Places RachelM Wants to Go

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

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

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

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

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

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

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

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.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

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

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.