The Pope’s secret escape route.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

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.

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

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

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.