Places thecoolhobbit Wants to Go

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

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

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

This high-desert oasis spotlights some of Colorado’s most sacred native plants.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.