Places RouteDown Wants to Go

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

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

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Not for the faint of heart, this long pedestrian bridge rewards those who brave the wobbly walk with a beautiful view.

Decorated by local artists, the city's utility boxes have become three-dimensional canvases.

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

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

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

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.