Places WhimsicalbyShelley Wants to Go

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

This pop-culture shop also offers the chance to become part of their favorite tv show or movie.

This work of art by Matthew Mazzotta resides in this park dedicated to the first black legislator in Idaho.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Make it an offering.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

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

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.