Places sschick Wants to Go

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

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

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

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