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

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

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

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

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

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

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.