Places woodcharr Wants to Go

One of the few remaining water-driven tool shops, originally built in 1911.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A diorama lover's dream world.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

An eclectic collection of wind-powered sculptures made from found and recycled materials.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.