Places SingingMouse Wants to Go

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

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

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

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

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

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

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

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

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

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

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

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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