Places lavenderlover Wants to Go

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

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

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.