Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

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.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.