Places samfsm Wants to Go

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

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

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

Set sail on a small scale.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.