Benicia, California
Grave of Concepción Argüello
The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Benicia, California
The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.
Berkeley, California
The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.
Sonora, California
Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
Volcano, California
Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.
Jamestown, California
Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.
Stockton, California
Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.
Cotati, California
A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.
Ashland, Oregon
A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Sutter, California
Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.
Tacoma, Washington
A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.
Toledo, Washington
These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.
Winlock, Washington
The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.
Olympia, Washington
Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.
Seattle, Washington
An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Portland, Oregon
Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
La Push, Washington
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Sequim, Washington
A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.