Places mhansen721 Wants to Go

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

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.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.