Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

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

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

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

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

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

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.