Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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