Places Irongoddess Wants to Go

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

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

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.