Places Smurphinator Wants to Go

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

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

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

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

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.