Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

Make it an offering.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.