This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

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

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.