Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.