Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

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

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

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

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

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.