Places byorgason Wants to Go

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.