Places iblang Wants to Go

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.