Places eharjes Wants to Go

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

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.