Places rbowptown Wants to Go

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

This cairn in the shape of a woman has looked over a tiny Minnesota town for well over a century.

Preserving the story of an early 20th-century orphanage.

Take a walk on Minnesota’s last historic covered bridge.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

The only building in the western U.S. designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

This spectacular fault escarpment, a popular hang-glider launch point, extends some 30 miles long and towers about 2,500 feet over the valley floors to the west.

The Columbia Gorge Hotel sits as a beacon in the Columbia River Gorge and is also said to be haunted.

A remote trail traverses the little-known Gearhart Mountains of southern Oregon.

Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.

Stay in an old lookout cabin atop Oregon's spectacular Winter Ridge.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

An unfinished railroad project is now a hidden tunnel.

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

Now a secluded county park, this site was once a "health tourism" destination for wealthy Oregonians.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

These natural hot springs form four-tiered soaking pools with temperatures ranging from 85 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.