Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

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

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

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

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

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

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

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

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

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

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

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

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

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

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.