Places snailforpresident Wants to Go

Legendary DIY skatepark where Portland’s best skaters and curious onlookers gather daily.

The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.

The world's first fish doorbell monitors this water passageway.

See antique textile machines in operation, bringing industrial history vividly to life.

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

Destroyed by a V-1 flying bomb in 1944, this ruined church is a haunting reminder of the war.

A tribute to an 18th-century British surveyor.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

A construction mishap at this narrows on the Fraser River rendered it impassable to many migrating fish species, with international consequences.

England's “third-oldest college” has not graduated a single student in over 400 years.

See an anatomy teaching collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

The world’s largest street art museum.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A museum dedicated to celebrating the humble wingnut.