Places zerbekathryn Wants to Go

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

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

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

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

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

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

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.