Places jorrick Wants to Go

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The magic's in the hole!

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

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.