This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This Canadian city is actually two-in-one, even if they only respect the timezone of one side.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."