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

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

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

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

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

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.