Places Qlyss Wants to Go

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

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