Places RachelM Wants to Go

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

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

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

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

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

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

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