Places toothbat Wants to Go

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The Ortega family started their iconic food company in this small, adobe kitchen.

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

Nothing to see here.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge and take flight at sundown all summer long.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

Along with used instruments, this pawn shop has pieces of music history on display.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.