Places flokibrobst Wants to Go

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.