Places ColeenB Wants to Go

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."