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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

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

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.