Places paigealvaughan Wants to Go

Remains of an ancient village perched on top of a remote mesa

Giant jars and pots littered alongside an Arizona freeway

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.