Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.