Places Entropical Paradise Wants to Go

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The magic's in the hole!

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.