Places quietdream Wants to Go

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.