Places chickenyday Wants to Go

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

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

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

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

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.