Places thedaddyofboom Wants to Go

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

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

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.