Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

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

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

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.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?