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

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

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

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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

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

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.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.