Places garycascio Wants to Go

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

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

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

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

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

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.