Places Rogue25 Wants to Go

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

The oldest city park in Walla Walla is home to hundreds of birds, from wood ducks to white peacocks.

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

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

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

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

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

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

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

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

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

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