In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

This now abandoned arch bridge was constructed during the Great Depression.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.