Places jessash31 Wants to Go

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

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

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.