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

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

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.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.