Oregon Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Oregon. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Portland
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Albany: Big Miner and Burro - Albany: Big Possum
- Albany: Cafe Teen Burger
- Albany: Carousel With Mythical Creatures
- Albany: Foam Volcano Home
- Alfalfa: Shoe Tree
- Aloha: Harvey The Giant Rabbit
- Antelope: Good Riddance Rajneesh Mini-Memorial
- Applegate: World's Only Bigfoot Trap
- Ashland: America's First Elizabethan Theatre
- Ashland: Art Under the Bridge
- Ashland: Fizzy Lithia Water Fountain
- Ashland: Great Loop Golden Spike Spot
- Astoria: 18-Foot-Tall Toth Indian Head
- Astoria: Astoria Column
- Astoria: Cenotaph of Chief Comcomly
- Astoria: Columbia River Maritime Museum
- Astoria: Food Truck in a Boat
- Astoria: Goonies Movie Locations and Museum
- Astoria: Site of First Cable Television
- Aurora: Grove of the States
- Baker City: Boy and the Boot
- Baker City: Broken Mystery Windmill
- Baker City: Chinese Graveyard
- Baker City: World's Largest Map of the Oregon Trail
- Bandon: Face Rock
- Bandon: Washed Ashore Ocean Trash Art
- Bend: Arnold Ice Caves
- Bend: Boyd Cave: Staircase into the Sagebrush
- Bend: High Desert Museum
- Bend: Last Blockbuster Store
- Bend: Lava River Cave: Lava Tube
- Bend: Shoe Tree
- Bend: Shoe Tree Formerly in Redmond
- Bly: Japanese Bombed Here
- Boardman: Tugboat On Land
- Bonanza: Bigfoot on a Riverbank
- Boring: North American Bigfoot Center
- Boring: Town of Boring
- Boyer: Paranormal Activity
- Brookings: Japanese Bombed Here
- Brookings: Samurai Sword of Pilot Who Bombed Oregon
- Brooks: Antique Powerland
- Brownsville: Carved Headstone
- Brownsville: Living Rock Studio Museum
- Brownsville: Stand By Me Festival and Filming Locations
- Burns: Large Ball of String
- Burns: Turtle Rock or Frog Rock
- Butte Falls: Statue of Paul Bunyan's Little Brother
- Canby: Vietnam Era Statue and Helicopter
- Cannon Beach: Haystack Rock
- Canyon City: Freak Calves: Grant County Historical Museum
- Canyonville: Eagle Nabs Fish
- Canyonville: Stump with a Roof
- Cape Meares: Octopus Tree
- Cascade Locks: Bonneville Lock and Dam: Fish Ladders
- Cascade Locks: Sacajawea as Graphic Novel Babe
- Cascade Locks: Train Appreciation Park
- Cave Junction: Great Cats World Park
- Cave Junction: Out 'N' About Tree House Resort
- Cave Junction: Siskiyou Smokejumper Base Museum
- Central Point: Big Logger Twins
- Charleston: Charlie the Tuna Statue
- Chiloquin: Collier State Park Logging Museum
- Chiloquin: World's Longest Miniature Railroad
- Christmas Valley: Crack in the Ground
- Corbett: Vista House - The Western Statue of Liberty
- Crater Lake National Park: Crater Lake
- Crescent: Angry Bear with Fish
- Crescent: Bigfoot Holding a Beer Mug
- Crescent: The Mohawk: Stuffed Animals
- Crescent: Two-Faced Lumberjack
- Dale: 45th Parallel Marker
- Damascus: Carver Cafe from Twilight
- Damascus: Oregon's Centennial Candle
- Dayville: Mini Wild West Town in a Parking Lot
- Depoe Bay: Whale, Sea Life, and Shark Museum
- Depoe Bay: World's Smallest Harbor
- Dexter: Animal House Roadhouse
- Diamond: Peter French's Round Barn
- Elsie: Camp 18: Logging and Bigfoot Eatery
- Elsie: Paul Bunyan Sign
- Eugene: Duck-Head Mascot Statue
- Eugene: Scale Model of the Solar System
- Eugene: Sit with Rosa Parks
- Eugene: Willamette Meteorite Replica
- Fairview: World's Tallest Fork
- Florence: Carnivorous Plants
- Florence: Exploding Whale Park
- Florence: Sea Lion Caves
- Forest Grove: World's Tallest Barber Shop Pole
- Fort Rock: Fort Rock
- Foster: Short Bridge: Fake Ghost Town
- Garibaldi: Cellphone Booth
- Gaston: Tree to Tree Aerial Adventure Course
- Gladstone: Restored Flying A Gas Station
- Gold Beach: Hermit Feud Murder Weapon
- Gold Beach: Salmon Fisherman Statue
- Gold Beach: Wreck of the Mary D. Hume
- Gold Hill: The Oregon Vortex
- Government Camp: Fearsome Bear Made of Metal Disks
- Government Camp: Movie Hotel from The Shining
- Grants Pass: Bear Hotel: Quirky Art Exhibits
- Grants Pass: Grants Pass Caveman
- Grants Pass: Little Bros Cavemen
- Gresham: Todd Kirnan, Coffee Man
- Halfway: Town Named for a Website
- Hammond: Military Batteries
- Hammond: Peter Iredale, the Tourist-Friendly Shipwreck
- Heppner: Two-Headed Goat
- Hillsboro: Civic Pride Burger Family
- Hillsboro: Jetliner Home in the Woods
- Hillsboro: Roloff Farms from Little People Big World
- Hood River: Mikey's Muffler Sculptures
- Jacksonville: Bozo the Clown's Childhood Home
- Jacksonville: Great Northfield Minnesota Raid Movie Location
- John Day: Chinese Healing Man
- Junction City: Crashed Plane With Surfboard Wing
- Juntura: Shoe Tree
- Keizer: 45th Parallel Marker
- Kerby: Burl Gallery Named It's A Burl
- Klamath Falls: Favell Museum - Arrowheads, Miniature Arms
- Klamath Falls: Japanese Balloon Bomb Victim Graves
- Lakeview: Old Perpetual: Man-Made Geyser
- Lakeview: Tall Cowboy
- Lebanon: Fork in the Road
- Lincoln City: Abraham Lincoln Reads on a Horse
- Lincoln City: Dragon: Sparky the Wish Guardian
- Lincoln City: Korean Wishing Totems: Easter Island-ish
- Lincoln City: Statue of Joe the Sea Lion
- Lincoln City: Surfer Dude, Former Viking
- Lincoln City: The D River - Shortest in the World
- Lostibe: Blue Banana
- Madras: Erickson Aircraft Collection
- McMinnville: Ben Franklin on a Bench
- McMinnville: Erratic Rock Park
- McMinnville: Spruce Goose and Space Museum
- Medford: Big Goofy Black Bird
- Milwaukie: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Mitchell: Large Rocking Chair
- Mitchell: Shoe Tree
- Mount Angel: The Glockenspiel
- Mount Hood Parkdale: First Artificial Insemination of a Turkey
- Myrtle Point: Muffler Man
- Newport: America's Only Riverboat B&B
- Newport: Aquarium Village
- Newport: Giant Orca - Killer Whale Statue
- Newport: Nessie: the Yaquina Bay Monster
- Newport: Wax Works
- North Bend: Piranha and Random Wood Sculptures
- O'Brien: Giant Fly
- Oakridge: Roadside Natural Hot Tubs
- Oregon City: End of The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
- Oregon City: Only Vertical Street in North America
- Otter Rock: Devil's Punchbowl
- Pendleton: Cattle Drive
- Pendleton: Fake Elk and Black Bear With Cubs
- Pendleton: Frankentank
- Pendleton: Star Spangled Banner Machine
- Pendleton: Statue of Beloved Brothel Madam
- Pendleton: Underground Tour
- Phoenix: Big Box of Doughnuts
- Port Orford: Cape Blanco: Westernmost Point
- Port Orford: Prehistoric Gardens
- Portland: "Retail" Birthplace of U-Haul
- Portland: 10-Foot-Tall Gnome
- Portland: 19-Foot-High Troll
- Portland: 1939 Signal Tower Gas Station
- Portland: 31-Foot-Tall Paul Bunyan
- Portland: Adidas Big Shoes
- Portland: Art Deco 4449 Steam Locomotive
- Portland: Chinatown Gate
- Portland: Freakybuttrue Peculiarium
- Portland: Giant Roof Carrot
- Portland: Grave of Bobbie the Wonder Dog
- Portland: Haunted Pizza Parlor
- Portland: Hippo Hardware
- Portland: Joan of Arc
- Portland: Jug-Shaped Building
- Portland: Mike's Museum of Motion Picture History
- Portland: Museum of Odd History
- Portland: National Hat Museum
- Portland: Ned Flanders Bridge
- Portland: Paxton Gate Portland
- Portland: Pod
- Portland: Portland Dog Bowl
- Portland: Portland Police Museum
- Portland: Portlandia - 2nd Largest Hammered Copper Statue
- Portland: Protein Sculpture
- Portland: Ribsy, Romona - Children's Book Characters
- Portland: Rimsky-Korsacoffee House
- Portland: Salmon Swimming Through Building
- Portland: Shanghai Tunnels Tour
- Portland: Sleep in an Elementary School
- Portland: Stark's Vacuum Museum
- Portland: Statue of the Hilarious Bulldog
- Portland: Talking Transparent Woman
- Portland: The Franz Loaf - Big Illuminated Bread
- Portland: The Grotto: Catholic Cliff Shrines and Gardens
- Portland: Tiny Horse Project
- Portland: Troll Bridge
- Portland: Volcano in City Limits
- Portland: Voodoo Doughnuts
- Portland: Weather Machine
- Portland: World's Largest Continual Chocolate Waterfall
- Portland: World's Smallest Park
- Portland: Wrong Value of Pi
- Portland: Zoobomb Bikers Monument
- Portland: Zymoglyphic Museum
- Prineville: Torpedo Mini-Muffler Car
- Redmond: Petersen Rock Garden
- Rockaway Beach: Ride the Pronto Pup, Rooftop Mega-Pup
- Rogue River: Batman, Formerly a Tree
- Rogue River: Rooster Crow Contest
- Rogue River: Wooden Rooster
- Roseburg: Rusty Metal Dinosaurs and Bigfoot
- Roseburg: World's Largest Nutcracker
- Salem: A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village
- Salem: Cuckoo's Nest Mental Hospital Museum
- Salem: Eco Earth: Globe of Acid
- Salem: Enchanted Forest
- Salem: Freedom Isn't Free Memorial
- Salem: Golden Lumberjack: Superhero of Oregon
- Salem: Grave of the Wonder Cow
- Salem: Oregon State Hospital Cremains Memorial
- Salem: Park With One Tree
- Sandy: World's Tallest Topiary Bear
- Scappoose: Peace Candle of the World
- Seaside: Camp 18: Food, Wood
- Seaside: Lewis & Clark Salt Works
- Seaside: Lewis and Clark End of the Trail
- Seaside: World's Largest Sitka Spruce Stump
- Shaniko: 45th Parallel Marker
- Shaniko: Ghost Town That Couldn't Be Bought
- Silver Lake: Cowboy Dinner Tree
- Silverton: 10 Waterfalls - Walk Behind One
- Silverton: 45th Parallel Sign
- Silverton: Home of Bobbie the Wonder Dog
- Sisters: Dee Wright Observatory
- Springfield: Giant Ken Kesey Mural
- Springfield: Juanita, Front Yard Bigfoot
- Springfield: Simpsons Murals and Hometown Tour
- St. Benedict: World's Largest Pig Hairball: Mount Angel Abbey Museum
- St. Helens: Halloweentown - Movie Location
- Sumpter: The Sumpter Dredge
- Sutherlin: Giant Magic Mushrooms and Joint
- Sweet Home: Root Beer Burger Family
- Talent: Memorial to Dead Skateboarders
- The Dalles: National Neon Sign Museum
- The Dalles: Pulpit Rock
- Tillamook: Air Museum - World's Largest Wooden Structure
- Tillamook: Cow Bench
- Tillamook: Memorial to a Surveyor
- Tillamook: Pioneer Museum: Taxidermy Room
- Tillamook: Tillamook Cheese Factory: Free Cheese
- Troutdale: Jerry Garcia Tree Sculpture
- Tualatin: Spinning Globe 65th Meridian Monument
- Umatilla: Large John Wayne Figure
- Umatilla: Metal Men on a Roof
- Vale: Bates Motel
- Warrenton: Japanese Attacked Here
- Warrenton: Oregon Shelled By The Japanese
- Willamette: Monument to Willamette Meteorite: USA's Largest
- Willamina: Smiley Face Hill
- Willamina: Tim Tharp Yard Art
- Wilsonville: MegaScope
- Wilsonville: Statue of Gentle Ben
- Winchester: Winchester Fish Ladder
- Winston: Wildlife Safari
- Yachats: Bazalgette the Spewing Whale
- Yachats: Blowholes and Whales Along 804 Trail
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Bandon: Giant Green Space Alien
- Beaverton: Large Homemade Dog Statue
- Bend: The Fun Farm (formerly The Funny Farm)
- Brookings: 1,400 Teapots
- Camas Valley: Chalet Doll Museum
- Canby: Hart's Reptile World
- Cape Meares: Mechanical Milk Cow
- Chiloquin: Thunderbeast Park
- Estacada: Bathroom Memorial
- Estacada: Safari Club - Animals Attack!
- Eugene: BMW Isetta Collection
- Eugene: The Pioneer Mother
- Eugene: World's Largest Rubber Band Ball
- Fruitdale: Muffler Man
- Gold Beach: Sheriff John's Classic Car and Doll Museum
- Grants Pass: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan
- Hebo: Big Fishing Pole
- Hillsboro: Kno-Tah: Giant Indian Head
- Hood River: Mitchell Point Tunnel [1915-1953]
- Jacksonville: Floor of 120,000 Pennies
- Lincoln City: Pixieland
- Madras: Shoe Tree
- McMinnville: Alf's - Ice Cream, Burgers, and Monkey
- Milwaukie: World War II Bomber Gas Station
- Mitchell: Henry the Bear
- Newport: Undersea Gardens
- Oakridge: Muffler Man
- Portland: 24 Hour Church of Elvis
- Portland: 3D Center of Art & Photography
- Portland: Big George the Muffler Man
- Portland: Der Rheinlander German-Themed Restaurant
- Portland: Giant in a Gym
- Portland: Kidd's Toy Museum
- Portland: Museum of Modern Materialism
- Portland: Octopus Barber Shop
- Portland: Old West Town in a Cow Dairy
- Portland: Santaland Monorail
- Portland: Talking Tree
- Portland: The Faux Museum
- Seaside: Three Bigfoot Statues
- Shaniko: Shoe Tree
- Springfield: City Seal From Sewer Trash
- St. Helens: Mount St. Helens Erupting Fountain
- Sweet Home: Museum of Things Found by Metal Detectors
- The Dalles: Muffmobile
- Toledo: Mona Lisa on Hillside
- Tumalo: Shoe Tree
- Wilsonville: World of Speed
- Winston: Noah's Ark Restaurant and Biblical Tabernacle
- Wolf Creek: Spider Cars - VW Bug
