A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

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.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.