Places valkni10 Wants to Go

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

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.