Places toothbat Wants to Go

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

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

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

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

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

One of the northernmost occurrences of western juniper can be found in the sand dunes of Washington's Palouse.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.