Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

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

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

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.

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

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.