Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

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

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

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

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

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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.