Places Darrell Powers Wants to Go

The most easily accessible intact vertical mine shaft structure remaining in the Red Mountain Mining District.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

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

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

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

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.