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

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

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

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

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

This stunning waterfall is the backdrop to a site that has seen continuous human habitation for 250,000 years.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Historic slum of Tartu.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

This old Estonian mine has been kept like a sprawling time capsule of the local shale industry.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.