Road Trip Wish List

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The magic's in the hole!

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

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

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.