Places amandahagar Wants to Go

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

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

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

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.