Kansas City, Missouri
Charlie Parker Memorial
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
West Glacier, Montana
Going-to-the-Sun Road
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Idaho City, Idaho
Idaho City
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
Gold Hill, Oregon
Oregon Vortex
A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.
Kansas City, Missouri
World's Largest Shuttlecocks
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Mullinville, Kansas
The Sculptures of M.T. Liggett
Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.
Greensburg, Kansas
The Big Well
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Portland, Oregon
Vaux's Swifts at Chapman School
Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.
Portland, Oregon
Mill Ends Park
The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Portland, Oregon
Portlandia
Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.
Portland, Oregon
Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel
The magic's in the hole!
Butte, Montana
The Berkeley Pit
New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.
Cottonwood, Idaho
Dog Bark Park Inn
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Arco, Idaho
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
