Places makennanystrom Wants to Go

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

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

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

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

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.