Places crankyavocado Wants to Go

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

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

"May the force be with you always."

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.