Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.