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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

A diorama lover's dream world.