Places SemiruralYeti Wants to Go

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

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

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

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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

The magic's in the hole!

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.