This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

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

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

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

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.