Places micheleshreeve Wants to Go

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

An installation tells of the horrific 1964 tsunami that devastated Crescent City, California.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

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

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

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

One of two trees tied for the distinction of the largest western juniper in Oregon.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

Now a secluded county park, this site was once a "health tourism" destination for wealthy Oregonians.