Places elizalindley Wants to Go

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

This public park features intricate stone architecture, mosaics, and walkways.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

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

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

In addition to what was once the world’s largest single-loom carpet, this charming space contains a pair of unique flags in American history.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

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

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.