Places mellauri Wants to Go

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

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

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

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

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

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

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

This patch of old-growth forest is home to Canada's gnarliest tree.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

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

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

The scattered debris of a T-33 Canadian naval jet crash from 1963 now stands as a memorial.