Places nho245 Wants to Go

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

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.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.