Places ahnahfoursure Wants to Go

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.