This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The magic's in the hole!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.