Places toothbat Wants to Go

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A circular two-story museum built completely by hand with 800 tons of rock.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.