Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

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

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

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

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

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

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Features unique photographic collections by women of the American West and historical attractions such as a two-story outhouse.

This sandstone building is a relic of the Overland Trail.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.