A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

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