Places MariePallas Wants to Go

The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, standing at this site just outside Vienna, Austria, the sky would have been found beneath your feet.

A set of outdoor stairs named in honor of a famous Austrian artist.

One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.