Places REvans Wants to Go

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

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

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.