Places saramorrison Wants to Go

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

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

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.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

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

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

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

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.