Places murrayalisonb Wants to Go

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

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

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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