Places emmeliamathews Wants to Go

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

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

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.