Places youngemilar Wants to Go

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

One of the northernmost occurrences of western juniper can be found in the sand dunes of Washington's Palouse.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

A diorama lover's dream world.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.