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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

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

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.