Places jobosound Wants to Go

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

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

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

A showcase of engineering might that was also symbolic of westward expansion.

A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.