Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.