This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

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

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.