Places CascadiaMike Wants to Go

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

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

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

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

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

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

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.