Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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.

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

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.