Places PunkyFGW Wants to Go

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A bronze sculpture on a bridge, of the shoes of 29 famous Malmöites.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

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.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

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

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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