One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

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

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

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

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

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

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

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

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

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

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

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.