This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

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

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Always a new use for this old building.