Places Taggaul Wants to Go

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

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

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.