An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The magic's in the hole!

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

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

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

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

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

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.