Places Dawn S Wants to Go

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

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

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.