Places RobinL2 Wants to Go

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

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

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.