Places Kara Davis Wants to Go

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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 long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.