Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

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

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.