Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

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