Places rutterchristopher Wants to Go

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

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

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

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Definitely not a clown bar.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

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

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.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.