Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

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

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.