Places lostslav Wants to Go

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

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

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.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

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

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

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

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

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.