Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

A diorama lover's dream world.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

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

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

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

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.