Places okn0tok Wants to Go

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.