Places Opinicus Wants to Go

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

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.