Places RachaelClaire Wants to Go

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A trio of giant megalithic stones in the middle of a golf course.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

A striking depiction of Teotihuacan's mysterious "Spider Woman."

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

Visit this small Mexican church to pray to a mushroom that is supposedly marked with the image of Christ.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

This park's art collection includes a clock made of flowers, siblings in a tree's roots, and a dove made out of weapons.

The English graveyard of Mineral del Monte, a magical little piece of Cornwall in Mexico.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

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

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

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.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

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