Places ambermriley Wants to Go

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

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

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.