Places carofine Wants to Go

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

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

The magic's in the hole!

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

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.