Places lindsaywulff Wants to Go

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This lava tube cave was once a Cold War fallout shelter.

Dozens of whimsical bear statues "hibernate" here during the winter months.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Definitely not a clown bar.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.