Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

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

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

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

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

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

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

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

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