Places KatKamakura Wants to Go

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

An advertising mural tempering the behavior of Charleston’s children since the late 1800s.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A circular two-story museum built completely by hand with 800 tons of rock.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The only building in the western U.S. designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

One of the world's smallest city parks is only 12 by 20 feet.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.