Places Metalmoose Wants to Go

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

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

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

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

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.