Places Pjotraveler Wants to Go

Hands-on activities, childbirth artifacts, and a library are all part of this tiny, one-room museum that examines motherhood and women’s roles throughout history.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

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

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.