Places Ramika Wants to Go

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

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

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

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

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.