Places therobfather68 Wants to Go

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.