Places Ryn Wants to Go

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

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

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.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

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

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A classic theatre located along a desolate Montana road.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

This canyon is named for a unique geologic formation where the river vanishes underground near the mouth of the canyon and reappears farther down.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

This archaeological dig site and museum is home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil collections in the world.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.