Places Dana Wants to Go

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

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

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.