Places DarkFireJacob Wants to Go

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

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

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.

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.